Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra, mvt 4. Intermezzo Interrotto

[Elkapan]

This piece is mocking the listener- It invokes anger by a mocking violence by orchestra....

[DivaGlamFabxoxo]

@Elkapan and according to my Music Professor (I'm a Music Minor in Violin Performance) he is also mocking Shostakovich hence the melody from this 7th symphony) Especially at 2:18, at that point my professor put his thumb to his nose and kinda wiggled his fingers. Can't you just picture Barkok doing that to Shostakovich?

[favoriteofGod]

I love this piece! This is my first time hearing it. A very pleasant experience. Thanks for posting!

[hihiim18now]

beautiful.

[Bagas]

This Bartok at his most 'normal' and 'conventional'. Still good though.

[svenlarsson]

The music is interesting and beautiful in its own way. To bad that the basstrombone glissande is not very often played unbroken like the tenor glissando.

[dmking122]

house looks packed

[ricsetke]

Szép vagy, gyönyörű vagy Magyarország:) kihallani!!!

[777Jubilee153]

Greetings from Hungary! Good performance.

[budjibird]

i think he could have given a bit more time lag between changes in the sections - everything was a bit too rushed

otherwise i like this performance

[CarlosIsDown]

Sounds beautiful. Never heard this one before (and I don't know why?) Why!?!?!?!?!?

[borninlust18]

@CarlosIsDown is parody of theme invasion of 7th symphony's shostakovich :)

[mysecretscankill]

@CarlosIsDown thats odd its one of if not the most popular piece of his

[blitzspeer]

I got introduced to bartoks' music by my uncle who was born in transylvania then came to the states in 1934 as a child and then orphaned at 9 years old then served in ww2 in the navy then spent 30 years as a merchant marine,I always respected his taste since he head seen the world;when I listen to bartok I think of him,may he and bartok R.I.P.

[cezcez23]

I had the same question, it was ok but i just babbled on for ages cos I couldn't think of much to say but I'm just glad the 5th movement didnt turn up, I would have cried if it did lol.

[ariastoteles]

Fabulosa interpretación. Me ha llegado al fondo del alma.

Greetings

[cezcez23]

The perfformance was very good pitty I now hate Bartok after studying this piece for a full year.

[Muscl3Mus3um]

Same boat as me mate lol

[NikNammerz]

Me three

Got the exam on friday, and I can't wait for it to be over :P

[cezcez23]

I had the exam today 2, how did it go for you? Fair play after it I'm glad I never have to do Bartok again lol

[NikNammerz]

It went quite well. I don't know about you, but our question was on the introduction of the first movement.... so boring to write about as nothing freaking happens in it :P but I wrote everything I could think of :) How did you find it?

[d4j3b]

I love this bit of bartok, i think he wrote this in america to cater for the more tonal loving audience but it still has all the niceness of his other stuff, he also mimics a bit of shostokovic in the middle not too sure why...anyone?

[DannyDaWriter]

The mimicking of Shostakovich came about when Bartok heard a performance of Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony on the radio whilst working on the Concerto for Orchestra. When he came across the famous, trite military motif, he deplored it and parodied it in the Intermezzo.

Personally, I think Shostakovich knew about the trite quality of the symphony, but when you analyse his situation, it was REQUIRED of him to compose in such a constrained matter.

Disclaimer: I like Shostakovich.

[pseudobombast]

Not sure which part you guys mean, but the theme starting at about 2:10 is clearly taken from an operetta by Franz Lehar and quite popular in Bartok's time in Hungary. Check it at

watch?v=mGgdL-9muIQ

the tune starts at 1:30

[majin2912]

Beautiful piece but I I think he rushes the 1st theme group. I love Dutoit's reading of this piece as well as Boulez's.

[balu65]

Éljen Bartók és minden nagy Magyar.

[violinmerchant]

1:14 would be the best leitmotif ever. I love bartok

[anasousaana]

As 37 pessoas não sabem o que dizem ou nunca ouviram esta peça bem tocada. E ela merece ser bem tocada. Mas valeu o esforço. Saudações de Portugal para a Galiza!

[anasousaana]

olha como um maestro pode assassinar uma musica que pensava que era impossivel de estragar

[darahbee]

Thank you.

[oleiros70]

Que má é a menina!

Acho que não concordam com você 37 pessoas no mundo.

Mas se olharmos para os rostos dos espectadores acho que terei que concordar parcialmente com você ;) Opino que não está tão mal conduzida. Saudações da Galiza.

[darahbee]

Could you please be more specific about what you don't like?

[WTBBabyFactory]

@darahbee I would of just left "thank you." up there that way he thinks you are being sarcastic in understanding that language.

[laurenx46]

Seems like it would be a difficult piece to play/conduct. But it sounds so great! Love this piece.

[manolotube666]

This is one of my all time favorites.

[fagottist]

it'sa little fast. but other than that fine

[johnnythemusicguy]

why so many empty seats?

[apanapane]

As a musician I can say that it's a very good sign that the orchestra managed to play this well despite the empty seats; it can be very demotivational to see a sea of empty chairs.

Well played.

[AuthenticPunkDance]

It actually looks relatively well-filled beyond the first few rows. That's quite odd, as normally the first rows are the first to sell...

[mangosalado]

well, add me to the list!! ;)

[mangosalado]

Oh, my god, the conductor is really alike to Stanley Tucci!!! :D

It sounds like the soundtrack from a fairy tale movie, with enchanted princess, a witch, talking bunnies, (and arabian prince)!! :p

[TimeSignatureManiaq]

I see Stephen Colbert at first and then Stanley Tucci. :)

[louloutally]

it's such a shame to see all those empty seats!!!

[Dabombmh1990]

u know u have a good ear is when u can play the timp part for this and nail it! either this guy had a good ear or 6 timp.

[jackfckntwist]

i frakking love this movement of the concerto. my fav part is when the violas solo

[markssetgo1]

ps....amazing! :) studying this for my A levels at the moment and at first i hated it but now i've really grown to appreciate the amount of effort that was put into all 5 movements, cant get enough!

[markssetgo1]

i love how at around 2.40 bartok has a dig at shostakovich's 7th symphony :) anyone have the other movements on here?

[paulrichardschuster]

This is one of my favorite pieces in all of classical music

[paulmauffray]

nice job! that's a real fun piece to conduct and i enjoyed watching you do it too :-)

[Waggler]

Thanks! Very nice. I'd love to see a performance of the whole work here. Every movement of the piece is great and contrasting to the one before.

[RainMan34]

Very nice interpretation of this amazing movement from this amazing 'concerto'. Its played a little more quickly than what I am accustomed to, but no matter. Very nice!

Do you have the 'Game of Pairs' by chance?

The plethora of empty seats in the background saddens me.

[andrewchen120]

Amazing! One of my alltime fav concertos.

By any chance does anyone have any videos of the other movements? Ive been DYING to see those!

cheers

[Blouchenob]

I am studying this piece for A-level, its amazing. MVT always makes me smile, with the drunken interlude. The trombone glissandi symbolise vomiting. Its well palyed, but Im not fond of the conducting, his beats are very vague sometimes.

[xoxCindersxox]

Hmm I disagree... I studied this piece for the first year of my music degree... Research I conducted told me the trombone glissandi symbolised the drunken gate crashers being turfed out onto the street while the partyers continued their waltz. However that section caused a great amount of scandal and questioning at the time of its release... It was thought it to be a jab at a fellow composer, I can't remember who though, but it's clear it still today is the cause for disagreement and discussion!

[leanne1912]

Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony.

and both interpretations are acceptable.

IB music HAS taught me a lot, as it turns out.

[Convisis]

This is one of my fav pieces. The first 2 movements in particular amaze me. I can't imagine writing anything like that.

[zoltai9]

no one can these days, either there's no incentive (world full of zombified pop gimps who writhe on the floor in agony the moment a little sophistication enters their ears)

or there are no geniuses left in humanity.

[soundandfury25]

mm agreed, definately a good piece, and well played. the shostakovich parody is clever. bartok was alright,man

[zoltai9]

i find myself prefering shostakovich to most other composers, but am constantly drawn back to Bartok and the like. Wonder if the world will ever allow such genius to have a voice again?

[penline101]

dear zoltai9

i believe it would interest you to know that Bratok in fact hated shostakovich, and ridiculed him in this particular work by using a melody from shostakovich's seventh symphony in the interruption section as a rude Russian barging in on peaceful Hungary country life. Also bartok did not understand the popularity of shostakovich's seventh symphony and believed it to be banal and uninspired. Just thought u might like to know why you are drawn to bartok of shostakovich

[CameronCrazie1998]

Great job on a great piece!